Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementHe said the £850 million cost of the policy would be covered by his decision to axe Starmer's digital ID scheme. "But the Digital ID program was unfunded. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementA source close to Burnham said the proposed cost of digital ID was "in government spending" and therefor was not unfunded. Labour say they will fund a VAT cut to energy bills by scrapping their proposed digital ID cards. But the cuts to the digital ID card budget are not real because the money was never provided for in the first place.